Former Polish PM announces opposition bill to amend constitution | Fourth COVID-19 wave may peak at 40,000 daily cases in Poland | 78-year-old grandmother runs up Tatras in less than two hours | Gdynia resident opens self-service farm shop

The former Polish Prime Minister and leader of the opposition party Donald Tusk has announced a bill to amend the Polish constitution to make it harder for Poland to leave the EU if a future decision was made to do so. Tusk, a former top European Union official, would like to amend the constitution so that the only way Poland could leave would be through a referendum or by a two thirds majority in both chambers of parliament. Tusk, who headed the European Council for five years until 2019, said his KO grouping had collected the necessary signatures of 92 MPs and would now submit the bill to parliament.

Source – Polskie Radio

Poland’s health minister has said that he expects the fourth wave of Coronavirus to peak in Poland in November or December with up to 40,000 daily infections.

Cases of COVID in Poland have already started to rise in recent days with 1,362 new cases on Friday. However, the number of infections remained low compared to last year, even though the current dominant „delta” strain of the virus is much more contagious than last year’s strain. The minister said that the most important number from a policy point of view was the number of hospitalisations from COVID which would be monitored closely.

Source – Polskie Radio

A 78 year old grandmother has completed an amazing feat by running up one of the Tatry mountains in under 2 hours.

She completed the feat of running the 8 kilometres up the 2,000 metre peak in 1 hour and 45 minutes and has now been dubbed the fastest granny in the world. She was competing in the Alpin Sport Tatrzański Bieg competition. The retired sport teacher is no stranger to this kind of achievement, having recently won gold in the over 75s category of the 20th World Masters Mountain Running Championships and has previously run in all the major world marathons.

Source – The First News

And finally, a farmer in Gdynia has opened up a self-service shop next to one of his fields near Gdynia, where customers can buy his produce and leave payment for them in an „honesty box” or by paying through the „Blik” payment system.

The owner who says that the idea to open a self-service shop was observed while he was traveling around Scandinavia. The countries there enjoy the highest social trust in Europe. The farmer’s actions have been widely praised on the internet and media >>>HERE.

Source – Radio Gdańsk

Weather

Today will be a sunny day with scattered clouds and a moderate breeze with temperatures reaching 16 degrees centigrade (61 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 10 degrees overnight. Tomorrow will continue sunny with cloudy spells and temperatures will again reach a pleasant 18 degrees during the day and 11 degrees overnight.
That was the Radio Gdańsk English news and weather.